Red Mosquito

Anders wrote:Despite some negativity around them here, I think Pendulum and Yellow Moon are pretty good. They would have benefited from being made for Gigaton or Dark Matter, and could them have been really good songs.

Farmer John wrote:How about instead of picking a Lightning Bolt song, we all do a write-in vote and put In the Moonlight on this bitch

wease wrote:

Farmer John wrote:How about instead of picking a Lightning Bolt song, we all do a write-in vote and put In the Moonlight on this bitch

Fuck yeah

stip wrote:So the problem is I like Alright less than every remaining option on Gigaton, since Retrograde has risen in my esteem over the year

BUT I like Won't Tell less than Wreckage, Stevie, or Setting Sun (prefer it to Got to Give). So I don't want to move my Wishlist vote, and people should be supporting it, because it's great

tragabigzanda wrote:

epilogue wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:

epilogue wrote:

Monkey_Driven wrote:

tommy wrote:What's the ratio of millennials to gen xers here? I'm barely a millennial (born in 84)

Probably more Xennials than anything else (born between 1977-1983).

What's the point in sub-dividing the arbitrary and made-up generational labels?

We deserve Donald Trump.

As a Xennial myself, I’ve spent a good amount of time thinking on this and I believe the subdivision has merit. I was six when my school had three personal computers it shared on little push carts; my teenage years relied on pavers rather than cell phones, while cell phones became a common accessory in my early 20s.

I went from Atari 2600 to playing PS4 online with my friends; I saw the crack epidemic in the news and had DARE shoved down my throat in school.

There are more examples of these sorts of “edge network” cultural experiences that people just a few years older than me either missed as a formative piece of their adolescence; and a few years younger than me missed entirely.

Also Pendulum is a bad song. Most xennials know that.

Right. But since these divides are completely made-up by... who exactly? ... maybe just move the year/age range by a year and two and put them in whichever cheekily-named category best fits?

Or just abandon the exercise all together because what does it really serve?

To your first point, I’ve got no problem there.

To your second point, it serves as an easy bit of pop-sociology categorization that allows people from marginally different cultural backgrounds to more readily navigate their intersectionality of shared experience. Which sounds more important than it probably is; but it’s not unimportant.

tommy wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:

epilogue wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:

epilogue wrote:

Monkey_Driven wrote:

tommy wrote:What's the ratio of millennials to gen xers here? I'm barely a millennial (born in 84)

Probably more Xennials than anything else (born between 1977-1983).

What's the point in sub-dividing the arbitrary and made-up generational labels?

We deserve Donald Trump.

As a Xennial myself, I’ve spent a good amount of time thinking on this and I believe the subdivision has merit. I was six when my school had three personal computers it shared on little push carts; my teenage years relied on pavers rather than cell phones, while cell phones became a common accessory in my early 20s.

I went from Atari 2600 to playing PS4 online with my friends; I saw the crack epidemic in the news and had DARE shoved down my throat in school.

There are more examples of these sorts of “edge network” cultural experiences that people just a few years older than me either missed as a formative piece of their adolescence; and a few years younger than me missed entirely.

Also Pendulum is a bad song. Most xennials know that.

Right. But since these divides are completely made-up by... who exactly? ... maybe just move the year/age range by a year and two and put them in whichever cheekily-named category best fits?

Or just abandon the exercise all together because what does it really serve?

To your first point, I’ve got no problem there.

To your second point, it serves as an easy bit of pop-sociology categorization that allows people from marginally different cultural backgrounds to more readily navigate their intersectionality of shared experience. Which sounds more important than it probably is; but it’s not unimportant.

You sound like an insane person right now

tragabigzanda wrote:To your second point, it serves as an easy bit of pop-sociology categorization that allows people from marginally different cultural backgrounds to more readily navigate their intersectionality of shared experience. Which sounds more important than it probably is; but it’s not unimportant.

epilogue wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:To your second point, it serves as an easy bit of pop-sociology categorization that allows people from marginally different cultural backgrounds to more readily navigate their intersectionality of shared experience. Which sounds more important than it probably is; but it’s not unimportant.

I believe this was always supposed to be true. And maybe even was at one point? But now-a-days it just seems like a way to other people or to broadly complain about a large group rather than empathize and/or engage. It's gone from sociology to social media dunking.

And it seems like we should have a better way to achieving what you're describing than these weird labels.

tommy wrote:

epilogue wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:To your second point, it serves as an easy bit of pop-sociology categorization that allows people from marginally different cultural backgrounds to more readily navigate their intersectionality of shared experience. Which sounds more important than it probably is; but it’s not unimportant.

I believe this was always supposed to be true. And maybe even was at one point? But now-a-days it just seems like a way to other people or to broadly complain about a large group rather than empathize and/or engage. It's gone from sociology to social media dunking.

And it seems like we should have a better way to achieving what you're describing than these weird labels.

Maybe some sort of number that increases relative to the year that you were born

tommy wrote:

epilogue wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:To your second point, it serves as an easy bit of pop-sociology categorization that allows people from marginally different cultural backgrounds to more readily navigate their intersectionality of shared experience. Which sounds more important than it probably is; but it’s not unimportant.

I believe this was always supposed to be true. And maybe even was at one point? But now-a-days it just seems like a way to other people or to broadly complain about a large group rather than empathize and/or engage. It's gone from sociology to social media dunking.

And it seems like we should have a better way to achieving what you're describing than these weird labels.

Maybe some sort of number that increases relative to the year that you were born

Anders wrote:Despite some negativity around them here, I think Pendulum and Yellow Moon are pretty good. They would have benefited from being made for Gigaton or Dark Matter, and could them have been really good songs.